Data driven retail chain expansion - Location Analytics¶

  • Objective
  • Data Acquisition
  • Methodology
  • Analysis
  • Results

Objective¶

In this project,

  • visualize all major parts and areas of the Chennai City and try to predict an optimal location the for new bakery outlets.
  • use various data science and analysis techniques to reach our goal of selecting optimal locations.

Data Acquisition¶

The data and their respective data sources for our projects are discussed below,

  1. Chennai city's major areas and neighbourhood

    Data Source: Wikipedia

    Data description: We will initialize crawler to scrape and extract data and information about the areas and locality from the wikipedia web page.

  2. Geographical coordinate of the areas

    Data Source: Python's geocoder library

    Data description: Geocoder is a simple and consistent geocoding library written in Python. Dealing with multiple different geocoding provider such as Google, Bing, OSM and many more. Specifically, we will be using ArcGIS, as it is reliable and free.

  3. To get nearby venues in each locality of Chennai city,

    Data Source: Foursquare API

    Data description: This API allows us to get information about all the venues in the neighbourhood of Chennai City. Foursquare Credentials is used to fetch the data.

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/places-api/getting-started/

https://codekarim.com/node/55

Importing necessary modules¶

In [1]:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.cm as cm
import matplotlib.colors as colors

from collections import Counter
#import pickle

from sklearn.cluster import KMeans
from sklearn.metrics import silhouette_score

Fetching neighborhoods - Wiki & geocoder¶

Web Scraping - Wikipedia¶

Wikipedia page has the neighborhood details. Using web scraping technique, we fetch the neighborhood details from the wiki page.

In [2]:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
In [3]:
url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_of_Chennai"
In [4]:
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
areas = soup.find('table', {'class': 'wikitable'}).find_all('a')

Geographical coordinates - Geocoder library¶

Geocoder is a simple and consistent geocoding library written in Python. Dealing with multiple different geocoding provider such as Google, Bing, OSM and many more. Specifically, we will be using ArcGIS, as it is reliable and free.

In [8]:
#!pip install geocoder -q
import geocoder
In [43]:
chennai_df = pd.DataFrame()
for i, neighbor in enumerate(areas):
    print('\rProcessing:', i+1, end="")
    record = [neighbor.text.strip()]
    record.extend(geocoder.arcgis(f'{record[0]}, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India').latlng)
    chennai_df = pd.concat([chennai_df,pd.DataFrame(record).T], ignore_index=True)

chennai_df.columns=['Neighborhood', 'Latitude', 'Longitude']
chennai_df.drop_duplicates('Neighborhood', inplace=True)
chennai_df.head()

Processing: 162
Out[43]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416
In [44]:
chennai_df
Out[44]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416
... ... ... ...
157 Villivakkam 13.10491 80.20604
158 Virugambakkam 13.05591 80.19347
159 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168
160 Washermanpet 13.1095 80.28701
161 West Mambalam 13.03868 80.22285

161 rows × 3 columns

In [45]:
chennai_df.isna().sum()
Out[45]:
Neighborhood    0
Latitude        0
Longitude       0
dtype: int64

Save chennai_df dataframe to pickle file

In [46]:
with open('chennai_df.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_df, f)

Load chennai_df dataframe from pickle file

In [47]:
with open("chennai_df.pkl", "rb") as f:
  chennai_df = pickle.load(f)

chennai_df.head()
Out[47]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416

geopy#### Vizualizing neigborhoods - Folium

Folium is a powerful data visualization library in Python that was built primarily to visualize geospatial data. With Folium, one can create a map of any location in the world if its latitude and longitude values are known.

In [50]:
from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim

import folium
from folium.plugins import HeatMap
In [51]:
address = 'Chennai, Tamil Nadu'
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="chennai_explorer")
location = geolocator.geocode(address)
latitude = location.latitude
longitude = location.longitude
print('The geograpical coordinate of Chennai is {}, {}.'.format(latitude, longitude))

The geograpical coordinate of Chennai is 13.035944350000001, 80.24099949725411.
In [53]:
# create map of Chennai using latitude and longitude values
map_chennai = folium.Map(location=[latitude, longitude], zoom_start=11)
folium.Marker([latitude, longitude], popup='Chennai').add_to(map_chennai)

# add markers to map
for lat, lng, neighborhood in zip(chennai_df['Latitude'], chennai_df['Longitude'], chennai_df['Neighborhood']):
    label = folium.Popup(neighborhood, parse_html=True)
    folium.CircleMarker(
        [lat, lng],
        radius=5,
        popup=label,
        color='blue',
        fill=True,
        fill_color='#3186cc',
        fill_opacity=0.7,
        parse_html=False).add_to(map_chennai)
    #folium.Circle([lat, lng], radius=1500, color='red', fill=True, fill_opacity=1).add_to(map_chennai)
In [ ]:
#map_chennai

image.png

Fetching neighborhood venues - Foursquare API¶

Now that we have our location candidates, let's use Foursquare API to get info of all the venues in each of the neighborhood.

In [55]:
# Foursquare credential
CLIENT_ID = 'SINBYBHJUVYI5ZFNECAKQS0EPSNQGSHR2LMCU5WRCP5WMISH'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'DCXNNXDM42HB2KEAGQL2DAS2PJGDJHFO2AQW3Y5TGK5VYSR4'
LIMIT = 100 # A default Foursquare API limit value
VERSION = 20211105

Define a function getNearbyVenues, to extract useful information using Foursquare API service.

In [56]:
def getNearbyVenues(names, latitudes, longitudes, radius=1000):
    
    venues_list=[]
    for name, lat, lng in zip(names, latitudes, longitudes):
            
        # create the API request URL
        url = 'https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/explore?&client_id={}&client_secret={}&v={}&ll={},{}&radius={}&limit={}'.format(
            CLIENT_ID, 
            CLIENT_SECRET, 
            VERSION, 
            lat, 
            lng, 
            radius, 
            LIMIT)
            
        # make the GET request
        results = requests.get(url).json()["response"]['groups'][0]['items']
        
        # return only relevant information for each nearby venue
        venues_list.append([(
            name, 
            lat, 
            lng, 
            v['venue']['name'], 
            v['venue']['location']['lat'], 
            v['venue']['location']['lng'],  
            v['venue']['categories'][0]['name']) for v in results])

    nearby_venues = pd.DataFrame([item for venue_list in venues_list for item in venue_list])
    nearby_venues.columns = ['Neighborhood', 
                  'Neighborhood Latitude', 
                  'Neighborhood Longitude', 
                  'Venue', 
                  'Venue Latitude', 
                  'Venue Longitude', 
                  'Venue Category']
    
    return(nearby_venues)
In [57]:
chennai_venues = getNearbyVenues(names=chennai_df['Neighborhood'],
                                latitudes=chennai_df['Latitude'],
                                longitudes=chennai_df['Longitude'],
                                radius=2000)
chennai_venues.head()
Out[57]:
Neighborhood Neighborhood Latitude Neighborhood Longitude Venue Venue Latitude Venue Longitude Venue Category
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Luxe Cinemas 12.991041 80.216962 Multiplex
1 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Phoenix Market City 12.991710 80.217297 Shopping Mall
2 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 IMAX® 12.990639 80.216310 Multiplex
3 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Mainland China 12.991028 80.217084 Chinese Restaurant
4 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Rajdhani 12.991081 80.217003 Rajasthani Restaurant
In [58]:
chennai_venues.shape
Out[58]:
(5285, 7)
In [141]:
#chennai_venues.to_excel('chennai_venues1.xlsx',index=False)
In [59]:
chennai_venues.drop_duplicates(["Venue", "Venue Latitude", "Venue Longitude"], inplace=True, ignore_index=True)
chennai_venues.shape
Out[59]:
(1648, 7)

Save chennai_venues dataframe to pickle file

In [60]:
with open('chennai_venues.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_venues, f)

Load chennai_venues dataframe from pickle file

In [61]:
with open('chennai_venues.pkl', 'rb') as f:
  chennai_venues = pickle.load(f)

chennai_venues.head()
Out[61]:
Neighborhood Neighborhood Latitude Neighborhood Longitude Venue Venue Latitude Venue Longitude Venue Category
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Luxe Cinemas 12.991041 80.216962 Multiplex
1 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Phoenix Market City 12.991710 80.217297 Shopping Mall
2 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 IMAX® 12.990639 80.216310 Multiplex
3 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Mainland China 12.991028 80.217084 Chinese Restaurant
4 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Rajdhani 12.991081 80.217003 Rajasthani Restaurant
In [62]:
chennai_venues.groupby('Neighborhood').count()[['Venue']].head()
Out[62]:
Venue
Neighborhood
Adambakkam 71
Adyar 84
Alandur 19
Alapakkam 22
Alwarpet 100
In [63]:
print('There are {} uniques categories.'.format(len(chennai_venues['Venue Category'].unique())))

There are 196 uniques categories.
In [64]:
pd.DataFrame(chennai_venues['Venue Category'].unique()).head()
Out[64]:
0
0 Multiplex
1 Shopping Mall
2 Chinese Restaurant
3 Rajasthani Restaurant
4 Pizza Place
In [65]:
# Remove duplicates from same neighborhood 

duplicate_venues = chennai_venues.groupby(['Neighborhood','Venue']).size().reset_index(name='count')
duplicate_venues[duplicate_venues['count']!=1].head()
Out[65]:
Neighborhood Venue count
11 Adambakkam Domino's Pizza 2
39 Adambakkam Pizza Hut 2
44 Adambakkam Sangeetha Restaurant 2
51 Adambakkam Starbucks 2
52 Adambakkam Subway 2
In [66]:
# Check for duplicate venues in the neighborhood after removal

chennai_venues.drop_duplicates(["Neighborhood","Venue"], ignore_index=True) \
            .groupby(['Neighborhood','Venue']).size().reset_index(name='count') \
            .sort_values(by='count',ascending=False).head()
Out[66]:
Neighborhood Venue count
0 Adambakkam Apoorva Restaurant 1
1068 Kodungaiyur Somany Tiles Showroom 1
1078 Korukkupet Basin Bridge Station 1
1077 Korattur Outter Ring Road 1
1076 Kolathur SRM Grands Hotel 1
In [67]:
chennai_venues = chennai_venues.drop_duplicates(["Neighborhood","Venue"], ignore_index=True)
In [68]:
chennai_venues
Out[68]:
Neighborhood Neighborhood Latitude Neighborhood Longitude Venue Venue Latitude Venue Longitude Venue Category
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Luxe Cinemas 12.991041 80.216962 Multiplex
1 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Phoenix Market City 12.991710 80.217297 Shopping Mall
2 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 IMAX® 12.990639 80.216310 Multiplex
3 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Mainland China 12.991028 80.217084 Chinese Restaurant
4 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Rajdhani 12.991081 80.217003 Rajasthani Restaurant
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
1603 Virugambakkam 13.05591 80.19347 CMBT Metro Station 13.068484 80.204830 Metro Station
1604 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168 Starbucks 13.108072 80.244642 Coffee Shop
1605 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168 Perambur Park 13.109012 80.242606 Theme Park
1606 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168 Southern Railway Stadium 13.107526 80.241702 Cricket Ground
1607 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168 Big Bazzar 13.112327 80.237220 Department Store

1608 rows × 7 columns

In [74]:
# Create category column based on venue categories as 'Bakery','Fast Food','Food'

list_ff = ['Fast Food Restaurant',
'Pizza Place',
'Burger Joint',
'Fried Chicken Joint',
]

list_b = ['Bakery',
'College Cafeteria',
'Cafeteria',
'Café',
'Coffee Shop',
'Chocolate Shop',
'Cupcake Shop',
'Dessert Shop',
'Donut Shop',
'Smoothie Shop',
'Snack Place',
'Tea Room',
'Indian Sweet Shop',
'Sandwich Place',
]


list_f = ['Food Court',
'Food Stand',
'Food Truck',
'Juice Bar',
'Ice Cream Shop',
'Airport Food Court'
]

conditions = [chennai_venues['Venue Category'].isin(list_b),
             chennai_venues['Venue Category'].isin(list_ff),
             chennai_venues['Venue Category'].isin(list_f)]
choices = ['Bakery','Fast Food','Food']

chennai_venues['Food_Outlet_Type'] = np.select(conditions, choices, default='Others')

Visualizing food outlets - Folium¶

Filter out only the restaurant from all the venues

In [237]:
nearby_spots = [ 'fast food restaurant',
'pizza place',
'ice cream shop',
'burger joint',
'fried chicken joint',

#####################
'bakery',
'college cafeteria',
'cafeteria',
'café',
'coffee shop',
'chocolate shop',
'cupcake shop',
'dessert shop',
'donut shop',
'smoothie shop',
'snack place',
'tea room',
'indian sweet shop',
'sandwich place',
######################
'food court',
'food stand',
'food truck',
'juice bar',
]

chennai_outlet = chennai_venues[[np.any([r in x.lower() for r in nearby_spots]) for x in chennai_venues['Venue Category']]].reset_index(drop=True)
chennai_outlet.head()
Out[237]:
Neighborhood Neighborhood Latitude Neighborhood Longitude Venue Venue Latitude Venue Longitude Venue Category Food_Outlet_Type
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Pizza Republic 12.990987 80.198613 Pizza Place Fast Food
1 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Subway 12.991516 80.216900 Sandwich Place Bakery
2 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Sri Krishna Sweets 12.989584 80.218610 Snack Place Bakery
3 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Dunkin' 12.991646 80.216754 Donut Shop Bakery
4 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Haagen Dazs, Phoenix Market City 12.992136 80.217034 Ice Cream Shop Food
In [238]:
chennai_outlet['Food_Outlet_Type'].unique()
Out[238]:
array(['Fast Food', 'Bakery', 'Food'], dtype=object)
In [239]:
chennai_outlet['Venue Category'][chennai_restaurant['Food_Outlet_Type']=='Others']
Out[239]:
Series([], Name: Venue Category, dtype: object)

Save chennai_outlet dataframe to pickle file

In [78]:
with open('chennai_outlet.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_outlet, f)

Load chennai_outlet dataframe from pickle file

In [79]:
with open('chennai_outlet.pkl', 'rb') as f:
  chennai_outlet = pickle.load(f)

chennai_outlet.head()
Out[79]:
Neighborhood Neighborhood Latitude Neighborhood Longitude Venue Venue Latitude Venue Longitude Venue Category Food_Outlet_Type
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Pizza Republic 12.990987 80.198613 Pizza Place Fast Food
1 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Subway 12.991516 80.216900 Sandwich Place Bakery
2 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Sri Krishna Sweets 12.989584 80.218610 Snack Place Bakery
3 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Dunkin' 12.991646 80.216754 Donut Shop Bakery
4 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 Haagen Dazs, Phoenix Market City 12.992136 80.217034 Ice Cream Shop Food

Percentage of each of the restaurant type

In [240]:
chennai_outlet.groupby("Venue Category").count()["Venue"].sort_values(ascending=False) / len(chennai_restaurant) * 100
Out[240]:
Venue Category
Café                    15.294118
Fast Food Restaurant    14.117647
Pizza Place             13.882353
Ice Cream Shop          10.352941
Coffee Shop              9.647059
Bakery                   8.235294
Juice Bar                5.411765
Sandwich Place           5.176471
Dessert Shop             3.764706
Snack Place              3.529412
Burger Joint             3.294118
Donut Shop               1.411765
Food Court               1.411765
Cafeteria                1.176471
Indian Sweet Shop        1.176471
Food Truck               0.705882
Tea Room                 0.470588
College Cafeteria        0.470588
Chocolate Shop           0.235294
Airport Food Court       0.235294
Name: Venue, dtype: float64
In [241]:
chennai_outlet.groupby("Food_Outlet_Type").count()["Venue"].sort_values(ascending=False) / len(chennai_restaurant) * 100
Out[241]:
Food_Outlet_Type
Bakery       50.588235
Fast Food    31.294118
Food         18.117647
Name: Venue, dtype: float64

The target restaurant type are

In [236]:
target_outlet = ['Bakery']
In [86]:
### Visualizing Bakery
In [243]:
# create map of Chennai using latitude and longitude values
map_chennai = folium.Map(location=[latitude, longitude], zoom_start=11)
folium.Marker([latitude, longitude], popup="Chennai city").add_to(map_chennai)

# add markers to map
for lat, lng, category in zip(chennai_outlet['Neighborhood Latitude'], chennai_outlet['Neighborhood Longitude'], chennai_outlet['Venue Category']):
    label = folium.Popup(category, parse_html=True)
    folium.CircleMarker(
        [lat, lng],
        radius=3,
        popup=label,
        color='blue' if category == "Bakery" else "red",
        fill=True,
        fill_opacity=1,
        parse_html=False).add_to(map_chennai)
In [85]:
#map_chennai

image.png

Methodology¶

  1. Use clustering algorithm like KMeans to cluster the neighborhood based on the venue frequency and analyze each cluster to select the optimal location for each of the outlet type.

  2. Analyze each of the outlet type and explore the 'density' across the areas of Chennai city. Use Heatmaps to identify few promising areas with low number of bakeries in general.

  3. Cluster the neighborhood based on the general venue frequency and compare the sets in each cluster to conclude the most promising and optimal location for each of the outlet type.

In [242]:
# Heatmap of food outlets
map_chennai = folium.Map([lat, lng], zoom_start=11)
folium.Marker([latitude, longitude], popup="Chennai city").add_to(map_chennai)

HeatMap(chennai_outlet[["Venue Latitude", "Venue Longitude"]].to_numpy()).add_to(map_chennai)
Out[242]:
<folium.plugins.heat_map.HeatMap at 0x2be150cdf40>
In [90]:
#map_chennai

image.png

Analysis¶

Cluster the neighborhoods and then analyze each of the clusters. The results will allow to identify similar neighbourhoods with the concentration of outlet type. Based on the occurrence of these outlet type in different neighbourhoods, we can decide on which neighbourhoods are most suitable to open the respective food outlets.

In particular, we will target those neighborhood that has less target outlets and no target outlets.

We will use One-Hot encoding which allows the representation of categorical data to be more expressive. Many machine learning algorithms cannot work with categorical data directly. The categories must be converted into numbers. In our case, venue category are expressed as the mean of the frequency of occurrence of each category.

In [244]:
chennai_onehot = pd.get_dummies(chennai_venues[['Food_Outlet_Type']], prefix="", prefix_sep="")
chennai_onehot['Neighborhood'] = chennai_venues['Neighborhood']
fixed_columns = ['Neighborhood'] + list(chennai_onehot.columns.drop('Neighborhood'))
chennai_onehot = chennai_onehot[fixed_columns]

chennai_onehot.head()
Out[244]:
Neighborhood Bakery Fast Food Food Others
0 Adambakkam 0 0 0 1
1 Adambakkam 0 0 0 1
2 Adambakkam 0 0 0 1
3 Adambakkam 0 0 0 1
4 Adambakkam 0 0 0 1
In [245]:
chennai_onehot.shape
Out[245]:
(1608, 5)
In [246]:
chennai_density = chennai_onehot.groupby('Neighborhood').mean().reset_index()
chennai_density.head()
Out[246]:
Neighborhood Bakery Fast Food Food Others
0 Adambakkam 0.136364 0.106061 0.015152 0.742424
1 Adyar 0.151899 0.050633 0.075949 0.721519
2 Alandur 0.105263 0.052632 0.052632 0.789474
3 Alapakkam 0.142857 0.190476 0.000000 0.666667
4 Alwarpet 0.181818 0.010101 0.080808 0.727273
In [247]:
chennai_density.shape
Out[247]:
(139, 5)

Save chennai_grouped dataframe to pickle file

In [95]:
with open('chennai_density.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_density, f)

Load chennai_grouped dataframe from pickle file

In [207]:
with open('chennai_density.pkl', 'rb') as f:
  chennai_density = pickle.load(f)

chennai_density.head()
Out[207]:
Neighborhood Bakery Fast Food Food Others
0 Adambakkam 0.136364 0.106061 0.015152 0.742424
1 Adyar 0.151899 0.050633 0.075949 0.721519
2 Alandur 0.105263 0.052632 0.052632 0.789474
3 Alapakkam 0.142857 0.190476 0.000000 0.666667
4 Alwarpet 0.181818 0.010101 0.080808 0.727273

Create a new dataframe to display the top 10 venues for each neighborhood. We will utilize the below function to achieve our task.

In [248]:
def (row, num_top_venues):
    row_categories = row.iloc[1:]
    row_categories_sorted = row_categories.sort_values(ascending=False)
    
    return row_categories_sorted.index.values[0:num_top_venues]
In [249]:
num_top_venues = 3

indicators = ['st', 'nd', 'rd']

# create columns according to number of top venues
columns = ['Neighborhood']
for ind in np.arange(num_top_venues):
    try:
        columns.append('{}{} Most Common Venue'.format(ind+1, indicators[ind]))
    except:
        columns.append('{}th Most Common Venue'.format(ind+1))

# create a new dataframe
neighborhoods_venues_sorted = pd.DataFrame(columns=columns)
neighborhoods_venues_sorted['Neighborhood'] = chennai_density['Neighborhood']

for ind in np.arange(chennai_density.shape[0]):
    neighborhoods_venues_sorted.iloc[ind, 1:] = return_most_common_venues(chennai_density.iloc[ind, :], num_top_venues)

neighborhoods_venues_sorted.head(10)
Out[249]:
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Adambakkam Others Bakery Fast Food
1 Adyar Others Bakery Food
2 Alandur Others Bakery Fast Food
3 Alapakkam Others Fast Food Bakery
4 Alwarpet Others Bakery Food
5 Alwarthirunagar Others Fast Food Bakery
6 Ambattur Others Fast Food Food
7 Aminjikarai Others Bakery Fast Food
8 Anna Nagar Others Bakery Fast Food
9 Annanur Others Bakery Fast Food

Get Neighborhood without competing venues¶

In [250]:
searchfor = ['Bakery']

neighborhoods_venues_sorted[neighborhoods_venues_sorted.apply(lambda x: (~x.str.contains('|'.join(searchfor), case=True, regex=True)))].dropna().head()
Out[250]:
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
6 Ambattur Others Fast Food Food
18 Chintadripet Others Fast Food Food
22 Chrompet Others Fast Food Food
67 Medavakkam Others Fast Food Food
134 Velachery Others Fast Food Food

Clustering neighborhoods¶

In [252]:
inertia = []
for i in range(2,10):
    kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=i, random_state=0).fit(chennai_density.drop(labels="Neighborhood", axis=1))
    inertia.append(kmeans.inertia_)
    score = silhouette_score(chennai_density.drop(labels="Neighborhood", axis=1), kmeans.labels_, metric='euclidean')
    print(i,'Silhouetter Score: %.3f' % score)

2 Silhouetter Score: 0.446
3 Silhouetter Score: 0.502
4 Silhouetter Score: 0.507
5 Silhouetter Score: 0.512
6 Silhouetter Score: 0.525
7 Silhouetter Score: 0.529
8 Silhouetter Score: 0.546
9 Silhouetter Score: 0.565
In [253]:
plt.plot(range(2, 10), inertia, 'bx-')
plt.xlabel('Values of K')
plt.ylabel('Distortion')
plt.title('The Elbow Method using Distortion')
plt.show()
In [254]:
kclusters = 4
kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=kclusters, random_state=0).fit(chennai_density.iloc[:,1:])
np.unique(kmeans.labels_, return_counts=True)
Out[254]:
(array([0, 1, 2, 3]), array([54, 58, 21,  6], dtype=int64))
In [255]:
neighborhoods_venues_sorted.insert(0, 'Cluster Labels', kmeans.labels_)
In [256]:
chennai_merged = chennai_df.join(neighborhoods_venues_sorted.set_index('Neighborhood'), on='Neighborhood', how='inner').reset_index(drop=True)

chennai_merged.head()
Out[256]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 Others Bakery Fast Food
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 Others Bakery Food
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 Others Bakery Fast Food
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 Others Fast Food Bakery
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 Others Bakery Food

Save chennai_merged dataframe to pickle file

In [119]:
with open('chennai_merged.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_merged, f)

Load chennai_merged dataframe from pickle file

In [120]:
with open('chennai_merged.pkl', 'rb') as f:
  chennai_merged = pickle.load(f)

chennai_merged.head()
Out[120]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 Others Bakery Fast Food
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 Others Bakery Food
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 Others Bakery Fast Food
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 Others Fast Food Bakery
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 Others Bakery Food
In [257]:
chennai_density = chennai_df.join(chennai_density.set_index('Neighborhood'), on='Neighborhood', how='inner').reset_index(drop=True)
chennai_density.insert(3, 'Cluster Labels', kmeans.labels_)

chennai_density.head()
Out[257]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels Bakery Fast Food Food Others
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 0.136364 0.106061 0.015152 0.742424
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 0.151899 0.050633 0.075949 0.721519
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 0.105263 0.052632 0.052632 0.789474
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 0.142857 0.190476 0.000000 0.666667
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 0.181818 0.010101 0.080808 0.727273
In [258]:
chennai_outlet['Food_Outlet_Type'].unique()
Out[258]:
array(['Fast Food', 'Bakery', 'Food'], dtype=object)
In [260]:
chennai_density[['Neighborhood', 'Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels']+ list(chennai_outlet['Food_Outlet_Type'].unique())]
Out[260]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 0.106061 0.136364 0.015152
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 0.050633 0.151899 0.075949
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 0.052632 0.105263 0.052632
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 0.190476 0.142857 0.000000
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 0.010101 0.181818 0.080808
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
134 Velachery 12.97938 80.21845 2 0.200000 0.000000 0.200000
135 Velappanchavadi 13.05975 80.1447 3 0.500000 0.500000 0.000000
136 Villivakkam 13.10491 80.20604 3 0.000000 0.666667 0.000000
137 Virugambakkam 13.05591 80.19347 1 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
138 Vyasarpadi 13.11778 80.25168 0 0.000000 0.250000 0.000000

139 rows × 7 columns

In [261]:
# Get density of nearby spots with cluster numbers

chennai_outlet_density = chennai_density[['Neighborhood', 'Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels']+ list(chennai_restaurant['Food_Outlet_Type'].unique())]

chennai_outlet_density.head()
Out[261]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 0.106061 0.136364 0.015152
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 0.050633 0.151899 0.075949
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 0.052632 0.105263 0.052632
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 0.190476 0.142857 0.000000
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 0.010101 0.181818 0.080808

Save chennai_outlet_density dataframe to pickle file

In [125]:
with open('chennai_outlet_density.pkl', 'wb') as f:
  pickle.dump(chennai_outlet_density, f)

Load chennai_outlet_density dataframe from pickle file

In [126]:
with open('chennai_outlet_density.pkl', 'rb') as f:
    chennai_outlet_density = pickle.load(f)

chennai_outlet_density.head()
Out[126]:
Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Cluster Labels Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Adambakkam 12.99192 80.20603 0 0.106061 0.136364 0.015152
1 Adyar 13.00303 80.25187 0 0.050633 0.151899 0.075949
2 Alandur 13.00013 80.20049 0 0.052632 0.105263 0.052632
3 Alapakkam 13.04613 80.16501 2 0.190476 0.142857 0.000000
4 Alwarpet 13.03471 80.25416 0 0.010101 0.181818 0.080808
In [262]:
# create map
map_clusters = folium.Map(location=[latitude, longitude], zoom_start=11)

# set color for the clusters
color = ["red", "green", "blue", "darkgoldenrod","black","orange"]

# add markers to the map
folium.Marker([latitude, longitude], popup="Chennai city").add_to(map_clusters)
markers_colors = []
for lat, lon, poi, cluster in zip(chennai_merged['Latitude'], chennai_merged['Longitude'], chennai_merged['Neighborhood'], chennai_merged['Cluster Labels'].astype(int)):
    label = folium.Popup(str(poi) + ' Cluster ' + str(cluster), parse_html=True)
    folium.CircleMarker(
        [lat, lon],
        radius=4,
        popup=label,
        color=color[cluster],
        fill=True,
        fill_opacity=0.7).add_to(map_clusters)

# Add Categorical Legend
legend_html = """
<div style="position:fixed;
    background: white;
    top: 10px; 
    right: 10px; 
    width: 100px; 
    height: 85px; 
    border:2px solid grey; 
    z-index: 9999;
    font-size:14px;">
    &nbsp;<i class="fa fa-circle fa-1x" style="color:{}"></i>&nbsp;Cluster 0<br>
    &nbsp;<i class="fa fa-circle fa-1x" style="color:{}"></i>&nbsp;Cluster 1<br>
    &nbsp;<i class="fa fa-circle fa-1x" style="color:{}"></i>&nbsp;Cluster 2<br>
    &nbsp;<i class="fa fa-circle fa-1x" style="color:{}"></i>&nbsp;Cluster 3
</div>""".format(*color)
map_clusters.get_root().html.add_child(folium.Element(legend_html))
Out[262]:
<branca.element.Element at 0x2be157fceb0>
In [129]:
#map_clusters

image.png

Cluster Analysis¶

Each of the clusters are analyzed separately to find the opportunity of opening a new outlets with respect to each type, within each of the cluster. Each of the clusters are thoroughly examined to uncover some useful insights about the outlets and general venue density.

Cluster 0¶

In [311]:
clusternum = 0

Top 3 common outlets

In [312]:
# Top 3 common outlets 
cluster = chennai_merged.loc[chennai_merged['Cluster Labels'] == clusternum].drop(labels=['Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels'], axis=1).reset_index(drop=True)
r1 = cluster.head()
display(r1)
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Adambakkam Others Bakery Fast Food
1 Adyar Others Bakery Food
2 Alandur Others Bakery Fast Food
3 Alwarpet Others Bakery Food
4 Aminjikarai Others Bakery Fast Food

Most common outlet in count

In [294]:
r2 = Counter(cluster.iloc[:,1:4].to_numpy().flatten()).most_common(5)
display(r2)

[('Others', 54), ('Bakery', 52), ('Fast Food', 40), ('Food', 16)]

Outlet fraction of all outlets

In [295]:
cluster_outlet = chennai_outlet_density.loc[chennai_outlet_density['Cluster Labels'] == clusternum].drop(labels=['Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels'], axis=1).reset_index(drop=True)
cluster_outlet.insert(1, 'Outlet fraction', cluster_outlet.sum(axis=1,numeric_only=True))
r3 = cluster_outlet.head()
display(r3)
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Adambakkam 0.257576 0.106061 0.136364 0.015152
1 Adyar 0.278481 0.050633 0.151899 0.075949
2 Alandur 0.210526 0.052632 0.105263 0.052632
3 Alwarpet 0.272727 0.010101 0.181818 0.080808
4 Aminjikarai 0.277108 0.084337 0.144578 0.048193

Outlet fraction of target outlets

In [296]:
target_outlet = ['Bakery']
r4 = cluster_outlet[['Neighborhood', 'Outlet fraction'] + target_outlet].head()
display(r4)
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Bakery
0 Adambakkam 0.257576 0.136364
1 Adyar 0.278481 0.151899
2 Alandur 0.210526 0.105263
3 Alwarpet 0.272727 0.181818
4 Aminjikarai 0.277108 0.144578

Target outlet count in bins

In [297]:
cluster_outlet1 = cluster_outlet
cluster_outlet1['Outlet_fraction'] = pd.cut(cluster_outlet1['Outlet fraction'], [0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1],include_lowest=True)

g = cluster_outlet1['Outlet_fraction']
r5 = pd.concat([g.value_counts(),              
g.value_counts(normalize=True).mul(100).round(0)],axis=1,keys=('counts','percentage'))
display(r5)
counts percentage
(-0.001, 0.25] 34 63.0
(0.25, 0.5] 20 37.0
(0.5, 0.75] 0 0.0
(0.75, 1.0] 0 0.0

Portion of outets in cluster as pie chart

In [313]:
target_outlets = ['Bakery','Food','Fast Food']
x = np.append(cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().values, cluster_outlet['Outlet fraction'].sum()-cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().sum())
labels = np.append(cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().index,'')
plt.pie(x=x, labels=labels, radius=1.5, startangle=90, autopct="%.2f%%");

print('Total neighbourhoods in cluster :',len(cluster))

Total neighbourhoods in cluster : 54

Function for cluster analysis¶

In [306]:
# Cluster number
clusternum = 0

def cluster_analysis(chennai_merged,chennai_outlet_density,clusternum):
    # Top 3 common outlets 
    print("Top 3 common outlets")
    cluster = chennai_merged.loc[chennai_merged['Cluster Labels'] == clusternum].drop(labels=['Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels'], axis=1).reset_index(drop=True)
    r1 = cluster.head()
    display(r1)

    # Most common outlet in count
    print("\nMost common outlet in count")
    r2 = Counter(cluster.iloc[:,1:4].to_numpy().flatten()).most_common(5)
    display(r2)

    # Outlet fraction of all outlets
    print("\nOutlet fraction of all outlets")
    cluster_outlet = chennai_outlet_density.loc[chennai_outlet_density['Cluster Labels'] == clusternum].drop(labels=['Latitude', 'Longitude', 'Cluster Labels'], axis=1).reset_index(drop=True)
    cluster_outlet.insert(1, 'Outlet fraction', cluster_outlet.sum(axis=1,numeric_only=True))
    r3 = cluster_outlet.head()
    display(r3)

    # Outlet fraction of target outlets
    print("\nOutlet fraction of target outlets")
    target_outlet = ['Bakery']
    r4 = cluster_outlet[['Neighborhood', 'Outlet fraction'] + target_outlet].head()
    display(r4)

    # Target outlet count in bins 
    print("\nTarget outlet count in bins")
    cluster_outlet1 = cluster_outlet
    cluster_outlet1['Outlet_fraction'] = pd.cut(cluster_outlet1['Outlet fraction'], [0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1],include_lowest=True)

    g = cluster_outlet1['Outlet_fraction']
    r5 = pd.concat([g.value_counts(),              
    g.value_counts(normalize=True).mul(100).round(0)],axis=1,keys=('counts','percentage'))
    display(r5)


    # Portion of outets in cluster as pie chart
    print("\nPortion of outets in cluster as pie chart")
    target_outlets = ['Bakery','Food','Fast Food']
    x = np.append(cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().values, cluster_outlet['Outlet fraction'].sum()-cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().sum())
    labels = np.append(cluster_outlet[target_outlets].sum().index,'')
    plt.pie(x=x, labels=labels, radius=1.5, startangle=90, autopct="%.2f%%");
    
    print('Total neighbourhoods in cluster :',len(cluster))

Cluster 1¶

In [307]:
cluster_analysis(chennai_merged,chennai_outlet_density,1)

Top 3 common outlets
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Annanur Others Bakery Fast Food
1 Avadi Others Bakery Fast Food
2 Basin Bridge Others Fast Food Bakery
3 Chintadripet Others Fast Food Food
4 Choolai Others Fast Food Bakery 
Most common outlet in count

[('Others', 58), ('Bakery', 57), ('Fast Food', 56), ('Food', 3)]
Outlet fraction of all outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Annanur 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
1 Avadi 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
2 Besant Nagar 0.307692 0.076923 0.115385 0.115385
3 Chintadripet 0.133333 0.066667 0.000000 0.066667
4 Choolai 0.076923 0.076923 0.000000 0.000000 
Outlet fraction of target outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Bakery
0 Annanur 0.000000 0.000000
1 Avadi 0.000000 0.000000
2 Besant Nagar 0.307692 0.115385
3 Chintadripet 0.133333 0.000000
4 Choolai 0.076923 0.000000 
Target outlet count in bins
counts percentage
(-0.001, 0.25] 50 86.0
(0.25, 0.5] 7 12.0
(0.5, 0.75] 1 2.0
(0.75, 1.0] 0 0.0 
Portion of outets in cluster as pie chart
Total neighbourhoods in cluster : 58

Cluster 2¶

In [308]:
cluster_analysis(chennai_merged,chennai_outlet_density,2)

Top 3 common outlets
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 Alapakkam Others Fast Food Bakery
1 Alwarthirunagar Others Fast Food Bakery
2 Ambattur Others Fast Food Food
3 Chitlapakkam Others Fast Food Bakery
4 Ekkaduthangal Others Fast Food Bakery 
Most common outlet in count

[('Others', 21), ('Fast Food', 21), ('Bakery', 19), ('Food', 2)]
Outlet fraction of all outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Fast Food Bakery Food
0 Alapakkam 0.333333 0.190476 0.142857 0.000000
1 Alwarthirunagar 0.400000 0.200000 0.150000 0.050000
2 Ambattur 0.363636 0.181818 0.000000 0.181818
3 Chitlapakkam 0.384615 0.230769 0.076923 0.076923
4 Ekkaduthangal 0.500000 0.375000 0.125000 0.000000 
Outlet fraction of target outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Bakery
0 Alapakkam 0.333333 0.142857
1 Alwarthirunagar 0.400000 0.150000
2 Ambattur 0.363636 0.000000
3 Chitlapakkam 0.384615 0.076923
4 Ekkaduthangal 0.500000 0.125000 
Target outlet count in bins
counts percentage
(0.25, 0.5] 15 71.0
(-0.001, 0.25] 3 14.0
(0.5, 0.75] 2 10.0
(0.75, 1.0] 1 5.0 
Portion of outets in cluster as pie chart
Total neighbourhoods in cluster : 21

Cluster 3¶

In [309]:
cluster_analysis(chennai_merged,chennai_outlet_density,3)

Top 3 common outlets
Neighborhood 1st Most Common Venue 2nd Most Common Venue 3rd Most Common Venue
0 George Town Bakery Fast Food Food
1 MKB Nagar Food Bakery Fast Food
2 Sembakkam Bakery Others Fast Food
3 Thiruneermalai Bakery Food Fast Food
4 Velappanchavadi Bakery Fast Food Food 
Most common outlet in count

[('Bakery', 6), ('Fast Food', 6), ('Food', 4), ('Others', 2)]
Outlet fraction of all outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Fast Food Bakery Food
0 George Town 1.000000 0.333333 0.333333 0.333333
1 Madhavaram Milk Colony 0.333333 0.000000 0.000000 0.333333
2 Sembakkam 0.666667 0.000000 0.666667 0.000000
3 Thiruneermalai 1.000000 0.000000 0.750000 0.250000
4 Velappanchavadi 1.000000 0.500000 0.500000 0.000000 
Outlet fraction of target outlets
Neighborhood Outlet fraction Bakery
0 George Town 1.000000 0.333333
1 Madhavaram Milk Colony 0.333333 0.000000
2 Sembakkam 0.666667 0.666667
3 Thiruneermalai 1.000000 0.750000
4 Velappanchavadi 1.000000 0.500000 
Target outlet count in bins
counts percentage
(0.75, 1.0] 3 50.0
(0.5, 0.75] 2 33.0
(0.25, 0.5] 1 17.0
(-0.001, 0.25] 0 0.0 
Portion of outets in cluster as pie chart
Total neighbourhoods in cluster : 6

Results¶

The summary of our analysis are,

  • Cluster 0 - Bakery comprises 60.5% of 54 neighboorhoods

  • Cluster 1 - Bakery comprises 48.8% of 58 neighboorhoods

  • Cluster 2 - Bakery comprises 26.1% of 21 neighboorhoods

  • Cluster 3 - Bakery comprises 62.5% of 6 neighboorhoods

Cluster 2 seems to have the optimal locations for opening new bakeries.

We can also apply the same approach for the larger dataset. This approach can also be applied to identify promising location for shopping malls, movie theaters and other related business. In this project, we considered only one factor, that is, venue density distribution. There are some other most useful factors like population and income of residents, real estate availability, surrounding localities, financial report etc., can be really helpful to further narrow down the choice of selecting the optimal location by the stakeholders based on specific characteristics of neighborhoods and locations.

Final decision on selecting the optimal location for the outlet will be made by stakeholders based on specific characteristics of neighborhoods and locations in every area, taking additional factors into consideration that are discussed above.